GRAMMY® Award Winner, 2019

"Superlative music-making"

– Daily Telegraph, London

“Sorrell is an absolute dynamo onstage and a pleasure to see conduct…. a force to be reckoned with. She brought the energy and creativity that… have granted her celebrity status within the early music world. Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor…. was a thrilling experience.”
– SAN FRANCISCO CLASSICAL VOICE (review with Philharmonia Baroque), 2019 (read more)

“Other masters of the [baroque] style have been paying visits, but none has summoned up as much energy, enthusiasm and excitement from the orchestra as Sorrell.” (read more) — TWIN CITIES PIONEER PRESS (debut with St Paul Chamber Orchestra), 2017

“The lightning strike of genius can happen, sometimes even repeatedly, to those willing to earn it. Jeannette Sorrell is one such person.” (read more)
– SEEN & HEARD INTERNATIONAL, 2017

“Sorrell is an outstanding Mozartian… Her Mozart achieves a near-perfect combination of real dramatic cogency and the ability to sing….”
— FANFARE Magazine on Mozart’s Haffner & Jupiter Symphonies

“Sorrell is a masterful musical storyteller. Her adaptation [of Handel’s Israel in Egypt] gives the work a coherent, compelling dramatic arc, brought off brilliantly by her singers and players. I can only think that Handel would wholeheartedly approve.” (read more)
– SEEN & HEARD INTERNATIONAL, 2017

“For those who thought they knew Messiah, the performance conducted by Jeannette Sorrell was a revelation. Messiah has seldom seemed so dramatic, so alive with detail, yet with an overall sense of the work’s architecture. This Messiah will last in my memory for a very long time.” (read more)
– BACKTRACK.com, 2014

Three of Jeannette's 26 Recordings

BACH Brandenburg & Harpsichord Concertos

Billboard Classical Top 10“A swaggering version… The most is made of the instrumental colours Bach so exhilaratingly put onshow. The keyboard part in the 5th Brandenburg brilliantly played by Sorrell…”
– The Sunday Times (London)

BACH St John Passion

“Consummate skill and artistry”
– New York Times

MOZART Symphony no. 40

“Sorrell is an outstanding Mozartian… Her Mozart achieves a near-perfect combination of real dramatic cogency and the ability to sing.”– FANFARE Record Magazine